Pakistan has been looking to revive a project to build a gas pipeline from Iran, which has been delayed for decades due to the risk of sanctions from the US. Last month, Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu said in a congressional hearing that the Biden administration will uphold all sanctions related to Iran when he was asked about the Pakistan-Iran pipeline.
Pakistan and Iran need to boost bilateral trade to about $10 billion in the next three to four years.
This week, Iran and Pakistan agreed to ban terror groups operating on each other’s soil, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said in a separate statement. Raisi, the first Iranian president to visit Islamabad in eight years, concluded his visit on Wednesday.
His visit was an “attempt to reaffirm ties and reestablish a warm relationship,” said Madiha Afzal, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution.
“We advise anyone considering business deals with Iran to be aware of the potential risk of sanctions,” US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel
told reporters in Washington Tuesday. “Ultimately, the Government of Pakistan can speak to their own foreign policy pursuits.”
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What does prioritizing economic needs over political pressures say about a country's sovereignty and independence?
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How does the idea of banning terror groups as part of a trade agreement between two countries affect your view on global cooperation against terrorism?
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reduced economic and trade activities, including trade in financial services.
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How do you feel about two countries deciding to trade despite the possibility of facing sanctions from a superpower?
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I think the threats to the U.S are a way to push the U.S away from the allies to not assist them.
Iran forces Pakistan's hand after it bombed the country in January.
"Pakistan signaled that it was seeking de-escalation by calling the two nations “brotherly countries” and urging dialogue and cooperation, language that Iran echoed in a statement of its own on Friday. Pakistan’s appeal, analysts said, underlined a plain fact: It could hardly be in a worse position to fight a war."
Pakistan, a country which harbors and even encourages terrorist, is a country with one and only one agenda, get more land from India via Kashmir.
Islamabad is controlled by Washington, how can they question the actions of a regime created and funded by the same Washington?.
Iran and Pakistan in a joint statement:
- We call on the Security Council to stop Israel’s adventures in the region
- We urge the Security Council to prevent Israel from carrying out its illegal actions of attacking neighboring countries.
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